Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…
Gene Hackman
as Major William Sherman Foster
Terence Hill
as Marco Segrain
Catherine Deneuve
as Simone Picard
Max von Sydow
as François Marneau
Ian Holm
as El Krim
Jack O'Halloran
as Ivan
Rufus
as Sgt. Triand
Marcel Bozzuffi
as Lt. Fontaine
André Penvern
as 'Top Hat'
Paul Sherman
as Fred Hastings
Vernon Dobtcheff
as Mean Corporal
Marne Maitland
as Leon
